Testing task: Open a menu

Describe how VoiceOver for macOS behaves when performing task "With focus on the 'WAI-ARIA Quick Links' menu button, open the menu."

Test instructions

  1. Restore default settings for VoiceOver for macOS. For help, read Configuring Screen Readers for Testing.
  2. Activate the "Open test page" button below, which opens the example to test in a new window and runs a script that sets focus on the menu button.
  3. Toggle Quick Nav OFF by pressing the Left Arrow and Right Arrow keys at the same time.
  4. With focus on the 'WAI-ARIA Quick Links' menu button, open the menu.
  5. Using the following commands, With focus on the 'WAI-ARIA Quick Links' menu button, open the menu.
    • Control+Option+Space
    • Space
    • Enter
    • Down Arrow

Success Criteria

To pass this test, VoiceOver for macOS needs to meet all the following assertions when each specified command is executed:

  1. Role 'menu' is conveyed
  2. Name 'WAI-ARIA Quick Links' is conveyed
  3. Role of the focused item, 'menu item', is conveyed
  4. Name of the focused item, 'W3C Home Page', is conveyed
  5. Position of the focused item in the menu (1) is conveyed
  6. Number of items in the menu (6) is conveyed

Record Results

Open a menu

After 'Control+Option+Space'

AssertionSuccess caseFailure cases
Role 'menu' is conveyed(required: mark output)
Name 'WAI-ARIA Quick Links' is conveyed(required: mark output)
Role of the focused item, 'menu item', is conveyed(required: mark output)
Name of the focused item, 'W3C Home Page', is conveyed(required: mark output)
Position of the focused item in the menu (1) is conveyed(required: mark output)
Number of items in the menu (6) is conveyed(required: mark output)
Were there additional undesirable behaviors?(required)
Undesirable behaviors





After 'Space'

AssertionSuccess caseFailure cases
Role 'menu' is conveyed(required: mark output)
Name 'WAI-ARIA Quick Links' is conveyed(required: mark output)
Role of the focused item, 'menu item', is conveyed(required: mark output)
Name of the focused item, 'W3C Home Page', is conveyed(required: mark output)
Position of the focused item in the menu (1) is conveyed(required: mark output)
Number of items in the menu (6) is conveyed(required: mark output)
Were there additional undesirable behaviors?(required)
Undesirable behaviors





After 'Enter'

AssertionSuccess caseFailure cases
Role 'menu' is conveyed(required: mark output)
Name 'WAI-ARIA Quick Links' is conveyed(required: mark output)
Role of the focused item, 'menu item', is conveyed(required: mark output)
Name of the focused item, 'W3C Home Page', is conveyed(required: mark output)
Position of the focused item in the menu (1) is conveyed(required: mark output)
Number of items in the menu (6) is conveyed(required: mark output)
Were there additional undesirable behaviors?(required)
Undesirable behaviors





After 'Down Arrow'

AssertionSuccess caseFailure cases
Role 'menu' is conveyed(required: mark output)
Name 'WAI-ARIA Quick Links' is conveyed(required: mark output)
Role of the focused item, 'menu item', is conveyed(required: mark output)
Name of the focused item, 'W3C Home Page', is conveyed(required: mark output)
Position of the focused item in the menu (1) is conveyed(required: mark output)
Number of items in the menu (6) is conveyed(required: mark output)
Were there additional undesirable behaviors?(required)
Undesirable behaviors